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MR. R. I. POCOCK ON THE 



foot being narrower as compared with the fore foot, with the pads 

 of the third and fourth digits confluent. In both the fore and 

 hind foot the plantar pads are very wide, the carpal pads of the 

 fore foot are separated, and there is a patch of hair on the area 

 behind the plantar pad. In the hind foot the metatarsal pads 

 are shorter and more confluent, and closer to the plantar pad 

 than in Melogale, and all the pads are granular or papillate, not 

 striated . 



Text-floure 36. 



A. Riglit hind foot of Spilogcde ■putorius. 



B. lliglit fore foot of tlie f^ame. 



C. Right hind foot of Mephitis mepliitica. 



D. lliglit fore foot of the same. 



Judging from dried skins and from Hodgson's unpublished 

 drawings referred to in my paper quoted above, the feet of 

 Arctonyx seem to resemble those of Meles in all essential par- 

 ticulars. The soles of the feet are quite naked. The large naked 

 area above the plantar pad of the hind foot has two elongated 



